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Article Reference Re-examination of the type specimens of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera), deposited in the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) Belgium, with descriptions of ten new species from DR Congo belonging to Thubdora Park and Torodora Meyrick
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Article Reference Revision of the genus Ptilothyris Walsingham, 1897 (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Lecithoceridae) with descriptions of eight new species from Africa
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Article Reference Biodiversity of tiger beetles from Angola with the description of a new species of the genuw Neochila Basilewsky, 1953 (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)
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Article Reference Further new country records of African tiger beetles, with some taxonomic notes (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae)
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Article Reference The Lanternflies (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha, Fulgoridae) of Khao Krachom Mountain, Thailand
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2021
Article Reference Review of the Maluku Islands species of the lanternfly genus Birdantis Stal 1863, with a new species and identification key (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae)
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Article Reference Taxonomic notes on chinese Lamiini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)
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Article Reference Taxonomic notes on two Southern African Catharsius Hope, 1837 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae)
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Article Reference Trois nouvelles espèces afrotropicales du genre Pseudopharaphodius Bordat, 1990 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Aphodiidae)
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Article Reference Exploring sexual dimorphism of human occipital and temporal bones through geometric morphometrics in an identified Western-European sample
Abstract Sex estimation is a paramount step of bioprofiling in both forensic anthropology and osteoarchaeology. When the pelvis is not optimally preserved, anthropologists commonly rely on the cranium to accurately estimate sex. Over the last decades, the geometric morphometric (GM) approach has been used to determine sexual dimorphism of the crania, in size and shape, overcoming some difficulties of traditional visual and metric methods. This article aims to investigate sexual dimorphism of the occipital and temporal region through GM analysis in a metapopulation of 50 Western-European identified individuals. Statistical analyses were performed to compare centroid size and shape data between sexes through the examination of distinct functional modules. Regression and Procrustes ANOVA were used to examine allometric and asymmetrical implications. Discriminant functions, combining size and shape data, were established. Significant dimorphism in size was found, with males having larger crania, confirming the major influence size has on cranial morphology. Allometric relationships were found to be statistically significant in both right and left temporal bones while shape differences between sexes were only significant on the right temporal bone. The visualization of the mean consensus demonstrated that males displayed a larger mastoid process associated with a reduced mastoid triangle and less projected occipital condyles. This exploratory study confirms that GM analysis represents an effective way to quantitatively capture shape of dimorphic structures, even on complex rounded ones such as the mastoid region. Further examination in a larger sample would be valuable to design objective visualization tools that can improve morphoscopic sex estimation methods.
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